@@imtheman4805you know you can choose to not show this channel right? And that interacting means you'll see more of him in your feed, right? Like dude, take a breather and stop fervently spreading your cynicism and nastiness all over a stranger's channel. You don't *have* to engage
@@imtheman4805you know whats really funny? Every time someone replies to you, it counts as interaction so it further boosts the algorithm to show this to you 😂
Accept the royal we is referring to the self in the first person plural (i.e. instead of "I'm going to bed now" it's "we are going to bed now"), it's not including yourself in a group you aren't a part of.
I don't work in road construction work, but we do have to close lanes and work on shoulders at times. As soon as you said there was no signs I knew they were losing that case hands down. Those signs are there to warn people of the potential hazard and to drive accordingly. If they ignore the sign and get hurt that's on them assuming the signs are setup according to the laws in that state.
Absolutely. When I worked environmental remediation, cleaning up after the oil field essentially, sometimes we worked on roads, sometimes directly off of roads, but we always, always had signage. Unless the work we did was on unaccessible private land, signage was present. It's for the safety of everyone involved.
He mentioned construction but not how it might have played a part in the incident. Many roads go from paved to gravel. It seems the client did not slow appropriately for the surface change and the turn in the road. Do you see it differently?
@@WalterWD The way I saw it the road construction had torn up the road and laid gravel as a temporary filler before they repave the asphalt. There should have been signs up saying "Gravel ahead" or something like that, so the driver could have slowed down instead of expecting the road to be as it was. This is pretty common around my area. State and local laws could be slightly different but they all should have something stating you need to alert people to a change in road conditions that they caused
In the event that the road was unchaned and they didn't do anything to the road or wasnt blocking it in any way, then the signs wouldn't really be needed. But they also wouldn't have been liable for anything
@@CleverOwl-t8j Ok yeah, if that were the case, I get it. I just didn't get that part about the gravel being temporary due to the construction. That's just how pavement ends around here. Especially when it crosses maintenance lines from state to county, or city to county.
I would be tempted to leave a comment on that video and say "thank you so very much for referring this client to me. I found it quite compelling and spiritually rewarding to secure that settlement for this lovely woman. Thanks again."
The exact same thing happened to me a few months ago, was driving down a road I was unfamiliar with, and the asphalt turned into loose gravel right as the road took a sharp left turn. Hit the brakes, wheels locked up, slid into a ditch. Thankfully I was fine and my car only needed some minor suspension work but still, that shit was scary!
Huh. Sounds like some coworkers and bosses I have. Only with my successes though, oddly enough I've never had to worry about people taking credit for my failures.
You had the right to expose that lawyer by name so we knew who not to trust. Lawyers are already hard enough to trust, so having one of the only trustworthy ones tell us who is a liar is really helpful to people looking for one.
@@leotamer5she doesn’t just push…she’s the one keeping the baby alive and safe inside of herself for 9 months! Her body is warped and changed so that this small being can grow and become a person that can survive outside of her and without her help. After all the trauma her body has gone thru then her water breaks and she goes thru several excruciating painful hours of actively giving birth before she pushes the baby out if possible or she is taken for a cesarean delivery where her body is cut along her lower stomach in order to retrieve the baby. Once the baby is out then the man can start contributing to the care of the baby but don’t minimize the work that the woman gives into making their baby and pushing that baby out into our world.
I had literally the same thing happen to me in February. I was on my motorcycle, I followed the old signage across a cross street through an intersection, and the road disappeared. I rode the bike home and escaped with a bunch of pulled muscles and soft tissue damage. After going through their claims process, they decided they aren’t responsible for their barriers staying up overnight, and they weren’t going to pay me, so I hired an attorney, and they’re working through the process now.
This kind of stealing credit happens in corporations quite often, typically managers putting projects on their direct reports, doing nothing, and then claiming it as their own work.
Referrals are incredibly important. Being placed in the right hands is a huge service, and every decent case that someone puts in the right hands - your hands - is money in your pocket. Not every client can possibly find you first. That said, it's plenty douchey to claim credit for work you didn't actually do.
Early in my career I drafted a joint venture agreement that had a pretty complicated “divorce” mechanism. Several years later I found my agreement being reprinted in a book of examples with no attribution
It could be worse. This video could be reuploaded by a fake account in youtube. (Now Mike reads this, gets paranoid and starts surfing youtube, ruining his Sunday)
Basically, this video is the extent. Of course, he can contact the other lawyer, have a conversation, potentially cut off any agreement between them of referring eachother for cases, but there's no legal case.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with referring a job to someone else if you sense you’re gonna need to step things up but unable to. However, you go from professional to scumbag instantly when you take credit for the work you did not do but it is a whole new level of shitbaggery when you do all that while flexing on social media.
Don’t know your the details of your situation. I do want to mention 1 thing - in most states it’s unethical for lawyers to bonus non-lawyers a % of a recovery. Sorry that happened to you though.
@MikeRafiLawyer Mike I hope you'll hear me out, and I don't know if other people have told you this, but you are such a clear communicator and ethical human, I have been really hoping you will give me a chance to vote for you for public office, I'm very serious.
This happens to me at work. I'm a road worker for Brevard county Florida and I was in the pothole patching truck and every time the driver (my boss) discussed a job we did he always said "I" instead of "we". "Yeah I fixed the one by the gas station" "Yeah, I'll fix that one after lunch."
First, I live in Brevard County Florida too! Thank you for your efforts. Had the opportunity to drive Michigan roads a few years ago and will never complain about our roads again. Second, are we related? Got fam from the Panhandle? My maiden name is Hoffman!
@@ladychiere I doubt it. My family lived in California till 2018. My dad grew up in Oregon and Washington and my mom grew up in California. There's almost no Hoffmans in our family. For a while, my dad and his brother were the only ones left because their dad died and their mom remarried. It's weird, for about a hundred years, the Hoffmans in our branch have been only childs and my sister was the first girl born a Hoffman in a hundred years. Of course my great great grandad was adopted by a childless couple who were descendants of a family that came to America in 1860 (in case you haven't guessed it by now, my mom was really big onto the family tree). That having been said, we just discovered my dad and uncle had a half brother they never knew about till 10 years ago so you never know. If you go back far enough we might be both related to Fidelis Hoffman who came here from Germany. Let me know. :-)
The client was driving down the road, there is construction, the road goes from pavement to gravel, there is a turn, and the client couldn't make the turn on the gravel. All of this tells me said client was driving to fast, and did very little to nothing to slow down for the construction zone or for the upcoming turn. Which means 1 of 3 things happened. 1. the client wasn't paying attention, being distracted by something. 2 didn't care about all the visual queues most of us would use to make us want to slow down, and then proceeded to over estimate their driving ability. 3 saw a potentially dangerous area with no signs and instead of seeing a reason to slow down they saw a reason for a lawsuit.
